FAIRMONT – All those nonprofit directors who showed up at the Tygart Valley United Way’s campaign breakfast earlier this month in Fairmont had to work for their scrambled eggs, as it were. While they heard about the Fairmont organization’s “Be Bold” initiatives for the coming year, ...
MORGANTOWN - For the 13th year, WV PopCon has returned to the Hazel and J.W. Ruby Community Center at Mylan Park. This year's rendition of the event was full of frights for congoers due to it being the 13th year for the event. “We got a lot more interest from vendors by focusing on the ...
WVU alumnus Jamie Lester has two sculptures on display at the Giardini Marinaressa in Venice, Italy, as part of the eighth iteration of the European Cultural Centre Italy’s exhibition “Personal Structures,” which runs through Nov. 22. A West Virginia native, Lester double-majored in ...
It wasn’t that Rhonda Conley didn’t know what she was doing. Back in Ohio, the certified midwife had helped bring 20 babies into the world over the first several months of her career. Then, a job opportunity delivered her and her family to Morgantown – where a baby boom ...
I grew up watching "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood," and later had the privilege of knowing Fred Rogers as a colleague. We were both ordained ministers of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and graduates of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Fred had a rare gift for noticing ...
MORGANTOWN – The Monongalia Arts Center will be taking people back to the 1960s in the hopes of raising money for arts programming in 2026 and beyond. MAC a-Go-Go! A ‘60s Soiree is the fourth such annual fundraiser for the center. It will be Aug. 29 at the center, 107 High St., downtown ...
